Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Kirumba, DRC

Employees of the Community Radio Station of South Lubero, also known as RCLS, line up to wish radio technician Kizito Kasali and his bride, Blandine Kasayi, a happy marriage before their wedding at Kasando Parish in Kirumba, Democratic Republic of Congo. Members of the RCLS team then escorted the bride and groom to the church.

Photo by Merveille Kavira Luneghe

Douala, Cameroon

Claire-Adèle Ndoko (right, foreground), a firefighting trainee, practices taking her position in a march during a month-long course for children aged 7 to 16, organized by a firefighting unit in Ngodi, a neighborhood in Douala, Cameroon. The children, who are on summer vacation, learned various skills that could help them save lives and property during a blaze or a health emergency, such as an epileptic seizure.

Photo by Irene Zih Fon

Oyo State, Nigeria

A farmworker in Lalate, a small area in Oyo state, Nigeria, helps another put a bowl of cassava roots on her head to carry to a nearby truck, which will deliver it to a processing factory. Cassava is a staple food in Nigeria and can be ground into a paste, which is used to make several local dishes.

Photo by Temitayo Olofinlua

Rubavu District, Rwanda

Visitors enjoy Gisenyi beach in Rwanda’s Rubavu district, on the shores of Lake Kivu, a large freshwater lake on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. In Rwanda, the beaches are open to everyone year-round, so many people cross the border from DRC, where there are fewer open beaches.

Photo by Ley Uwera

Goma, North Kivu, DRC

Kennedy Mukadi, 14, performs a hip-hop choreographic style called krumping at the third annual Kivu Dance Battle in July, in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern city of Goma, North Kivu province. Faraja Batumike, the event’s founder, says the dance battle gives young artists an opportunity to display their talents and may help them cross into a professional career.

Photo by Ley Uwera

Kampala, Uganda

Victoria Nabasa, 13, (right) a student from the Chiperoy Nursery and Primary School demonstrates traditional methods of cooking traditional cuisine at the Uganda International Cultural Fair, which took place at the Uganda Museum in Kampala on July 28. The fair is held once a year.

Photo by Nakisanze Segawa

Kampala, Uganda

The drummers of Kika Entertainment performed for guests with their traditional Bakisimba music at the opening event of the Buganda Book Fair on July 20 in Kampala, Uganda. The event encouraged reading and writing, especially in the Luganda language, and focused on topics relating to Buganda, a kingdom in central Uganda that includes Kampala, the nation’s capital.

Photo by Nakisanze Segawa

Kanyaruchinya, North Kivu, DRC

In Kanyaruchinya village in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province, a cholera outbreak that began in July has claimed the lives of 15 people, most under the age of 10. In response, authorities have created a quarantine area within the Majengo neighborhood of Goma, 10 kilometers (6 miles) to the south. More than 1,100 cases have been reported so far.

Photo by Esther Nsapu

Kampala, Uganda

Boda boda motorcycle taxi operators pass under a stuck tractor trailer on the Kampala-Hoima Road in the Wakiso district near Kampala, Uganda’s capital. The truck, which blocked traffic for hours, ended up in a ditch after its driver attempted a turn on the narrow road.

Photo by Nakisanze Segawa

Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe

Obrian Shumba, of Gwanda High School, drinks water between rounds during tryout matches for the Matabeleland South provincial boxing team in Zimbabwe. The team will represent the province at the annual National Youth Games in Hwange, a city in Matabeleland North.

Photo by Vimbai Chinembiri

Rubavu District, Rwanda

People line up in Rubavu District in Rwanda’s Western Province to vote on Aug. 4 in a presidential election. More than 400 people had gathered by 7 a.m. at the College de Gisenyi Inyemeramihigo voting site. President Paul Kagame won in a landslide victory. The country amended its constitution in 2015 to allow him to run for a third term.

Photo by Janviere Uwimana

Lusaka, Zambia

Friends in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital, convert reusable cooking-oil buckets into self-heating water buckets by adding heating elements. During winter, the group buys the buckets for 20 kwacha ($2.26) each and the heating elements for 70 kwacha ($7.92). They then sell the final product for 120 kwacha ($13.58).

Photo by Prudence Phiri

Rubavu District, Rwanda

Company owner Emmanuel Hategekimana (left) and employee Jean Paul Ndikumana pour finished paint into a bucket at the Hatega Co. Ltd. office in the Rugerero sector of Rwanda’s Rubavu district. Hategekimana, who founded the company, creates his paints using local soil and mixing the ingredients by hand.

Photo by Janviere Uwimana

Goma, North Kivu, DRC

Chance Bahati, 32, who is hearing and speech impaired, sews shirts, handbags, shoes and other items made from waxed cotton fabric. He lives in the city of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province. For five years, Bahati has collected the waxed cotton fabric, known there as kitenge, from local markets. He sells the shirts, for example, at 21,750 Congolese francs ($13.70) each.

Photo by Esther Nsapu

Kahuzi, Biega National Park, DRC

Bijoux Zawadi, 29, serves as a park warden defending the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kahuzi Biega National Park from armed poachers. This park, like other protected areas in the nation, is managed by the Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature. “When I hold my AK-47 in my hands, I become more confident and feel great,” she says. “I value my AK-47 like a farmer treasures his ax, and I cannot detach myself from it.”

Photo by Esther Nsapu

Kitchanga, North Kivu, DRC

Sugabo Shabani, a widowed father of eight, purchases drinking water for 50 Congolese francs (3 cents) per 19-liter (5-gallon) jerry can, which he carries and sells to restaurants at a market in the city of Kitchanga, in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province. Shabani walks to the market carrying two jerry cans by hand, and he can take nearly 500 liters (130 gallons) per day.

Photo by Esther Nsapu

Bukavu, South Kivu, DRC

Zacharie Tabaro, 57, sands a guitar he is making in Bukavu, the capital of the South Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Tabaro has trained about 50 young people from Bukavu in the art of making guitars.

Photo by Esther Nsapu

Lusaka, Zambia

Queen Daka (left) and Janet Musonda practice football on a makeshift field also used by traders in Chawama, a neighborhood in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital. Daka says many other girls like her play football to avoid vices and to seek corporate sponsorships that could lead to a football career or allow them to return to school.

Photo by Prudence Phiri

Harare, Zimbabwe

Nomatter James (left), 16, and Estery Emmanuel (second from left), 15, braid a client’s hair in the Caledonia settlement in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital. James, who does not attend school, was taken in and taught to braid hair by Estery’s mother, after her own mother left for South Africa in November 2016 and did not return.

Photo by Tatenda Kanengoni

Lusaka, Zambia

On July 4, firefighters survey the damage at the Lusaka City Market, after a blaze destroyed 1,901 of the 4,000 stalls. The venue is the largest trading market in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital.

Photo by Prudence Phiri

Harare, Zimbabwe

In Mount Pleasant, a suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe, Nyasha Manyeruke, 20, shows artwork that her company, Reysh Alef, collects and sells as a part of its Art of Humanity Project, which helps artists to network and to sell their works. The project also uses materials made from recycled waste to make science kits that are donated to schools in impoverished areas.

Photo by Kudzai Mazvarirwofa

Rubavu District, Rwanda

Marie Nyirarukundo sells eggplants, which she bought from local farmers, at the Mbugangari market in Rwanda’s Rubavu District, on the border of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo.

Photo by Janviere Uwimana

Harare, Zimbabwe

In Harare, Zimbabwe, Chriss Grey (left), the host of a weekly music TV show called “Live Sessions,” interviews singer Takura about his successes and failures in the music industry. Programs like “Live Sessions” help the local television and entertainment industries in Zimbabwe to reach younger audiences.

Photo by Kudzai Mazvarirwofa

Nyundo, Rubavu, Rwanda

Jeanne d’Arc Uwimana (right) sews toys with Mariana Nyiragasigwa in Nyundo, a community in Rwanda’s western Rubavu district. The two women are members of KOMERA, a cooperative that helps to start businesses like this one, which brings together tailors to make clothes, bags, hats, carpets and toys.

Photo by Janviere Uwimana

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